Quantifying the environmental impacts of labor

  • Authors:

  • Teresa W. Zhang;David A. Dornfeld

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California at Berkeley, 1115 Etcheverry Hall, 94720-1740, USA;University of California at Berkeley, 1115 Etcheverry Hall, 94720-1740, USA

  • Venue:
  • ISEE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Quantitative values for the environmental impacts of labor are needed to improve the accuracy and expand the decision making capabilities of life cycle analysis. We present a method of calculating the environmental impacts of a worker-hour, finding one worker-hour of industrial labor in the U.S. corresponding to 58 MJ of primary energy use, 82 gallons of water use, and 4.6 kg of CO2 equivalent emissions.